Friday, December 5, 2008

A Note On The Population, From Grandpa Leroy

Top Ten Earth Population Periods
by Samuel Leroy Thompson

1 To time of Christ, 250 Million
2. To time of Lincoln (1850), 1 Billion [Editor's note: always with the Lincoln this guy. I love how historical epoch's are measured off as "Time to Christ," and then "Time to Lincoln."]
3 To time of my birth (1930), 2 Billion
4 To time of our move to Il. (1960), 3 Billion
5 To time of move to Clinton (1975), 4 Billion
6 To time of move to Rockford (1986), 5 Billion
7 To time of move to Mahomet (1995), 6 Billion
8 To time of our retirement (2002), 6.2 Billion
9 To 2008, 6.725 Billion
10 To beginning of Thompson Madness blog... If the number increases it is up to you. Grandpa and Grandma are tired of doing all the work.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I did my part!

Dad...I get my weird sense of humor from you.

Has anyone heard about Scott's laptop situation? What was the outcome?

Daniel said...

I talked to Scott. He is able to hook his laptop up to the TV and see everything on it that way. His company is going to cover the repairs but he just has to find a time when he can send it in and be without it, which is tough because of school and work.